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1. Introduction and Supplies You Will Need: Yeah Hi, friends. How are you? I hope you're having
a great day today. I'm excited about sharing
this project with you. This is a drawing and
watercolor painting project that I designed,
especially for kids. Students do not need to have any drawing or
painting experience at all to be successful
with this project. I will guide students step by step through all the steps
that they need to take. Today, we are going
to be creating this fun and festive design that includes Macas and some flags and some different
shapes and lines. I hope that you have a lot
of fun with this project. Let's get started. Let's talk about
the supplies and the materials that you will
need for this project. The first thing
that you'll need is a sheet of watercolor paper. You will need a set of watercolor paints
and a paintbrush. You will need a cup or
bowl with clean water and a paper towel and a set of
oil pastels or crayons. So go ahead and gather all of those supplies and materials, and I'll see you back
here in the next video.
2. Step 1: Draw Festive Maracas: I in this step, we are going to draw our design. So let's get started. So go ahead and pick up
your black oil pastel or crayon and go to the middle
of your sheet of paper. This is where we're
going to create the main part of our maracas. We're going to have two Macas, one here, and then one here. And then the handles
are going to come down here at the bottom. They may or may not
cross over each other, depending on which way you want your maracas
to turn. Okay? So I'm going to make
two fairly large ovals. So there's one. And then I'm going to make another
one about right here. They don't have to be perfect. They might be one might be a little bit bigger
than the other. One might be a little
bit differently shaped. Now, down here at the bottom, we're going to create a little shape that
looks like this. And then same on this side. Now we're going to
make some handles coming out from these
shapes right here. You can make them as
long as you'd like. It's like a really long
letter U. Alright? I'm going to do the
same on this one. And oh, I need to jump over. Let's see. Make sure that
I get that straight, crossover, and
then come back up. Like I said, yours may or may
not cross over each other. Alright, now we
have our maracas. Let's make some flags up
here towards the top. So we're going to
make a curve line coming from point to point. So come down and
then come back up. And then you can make
some flags here. You can make semicircle flags. You can make triangle
shaped flags. You can make squares or
rectangles. It's up to you. I think I'm going to
start with a triangle, and maybe I'll start
right here, come down, and then come back up,
and then I'm going to attach more triangles and go all the way to the edge
of my piece of paper, and I might go off my piece
of paper, and that's okay. So I'm going to come down, go back up and then come down. There we go. Alright, now what we're going to
do is we're going to put some small shapes
inside of our flags. I think I'm just going to make shapes that look like this. It's almost like
a teardrop shape. And then I think I'm going
to make a circle here. There we go. Maybe you
only even make one here. And over here, maybe. Maybe
part of a shape right here. Alright. Now what you
can do is you can put your black oil
pastel or crayon away, and you can start decorating your design with
different colors. Alright? So let's start
by decorating our Macas, and let's put some different
patterns in there. You can use any colors that you like and make any
type of pattern. Pattern is something
that repeats itself. So I think I'll start with
that and then maybe I'll add some dots and just go ahead and create some really fun and festive
lines and shapes on your Mracas Alrighty friends, I'm finished adding some
patterns to my Macas. And now what I'm going
to do is I'm going to add some designs
into the background. So the background is
this space right here, anything that is behind
the Macas and the flags. So I'm going to make
some different shapes, maybe like some triangles, maybe some circles, maybe some
different types of lines. And I'm just going to
scatter the shapes and lines on my piece of paper. M. Alright, friends, take a moment
to look at your artwork to see if there's anything
else that you'd like to add. Think about this. Is there anything else that
you'd like to add to the flags or the background
or to the Macas? It's completely up to you
because this is your artwork, so you get to do what
you like with it. Alright? In the next step, we are going to come
back and we are going to start painting our design.
3. Step 2: Paint the Design: In this step, we are going to
start painting our design. So let's get started. The first thing that we're
going to do is we're going to add one or two drops of water into each of
our pans of paint. And what this will do is it will soften up our
paint a little bit so that it is
easier for us to use. I really do encourage
my students to take that step
because it does help. Now that our paints
are softening up, let's turn our attention
to our design. So in this step, what
we're going to focus on painting are the Macas and the flags and any shapes that you need to
fill in on the background, for example, we have a shape here that
needs to be filled in, right here, right here. So we're going to focus
on those three things. We're going to focus on
painting in the Macas, the flags, and the shapes. In the next step, we're
going to come back and we're going to paint all of these spaces all around the shapes and
the Macas and the flags. Okay. So let's get started. I'm going to start
with my Macas, and I'm going to just
paint them all kinds of different bright and
cheerful colors, okay? I want this painting to be
really bright and colorful. Down here, I'm going to pretend like these
are made out of wood. These handles are
made out of wood. So I'm going to paint these
a really light brown. And then I'm not sure
about my flags yet. I might color those
different colors. In your mind, think
about the color or colors that you would like
to use for your background. That might help with
your decision making on the colors that you'd
like to use for your Mracas. I think I might use a
really bright orange, maybe a pink, but I'm
thinking more orange. Okay. So I'm going to start
by putting a little bit of water into one of my wells, and I'm going to add just
a very small amount of brown paint because I want to
paint my handles a really, really light brown because I am pretending that these
are made out of wood. So I want the wood to be
fairly light. Here we go. Alright. So now I'm
just going to start at the top of each of my maracas, and I'm just going to start painting nice and bright colors. I should say, as I'm painting, your colors might run
into each other and mix and blend a little
bit, and that's okay. That's what watercolor
paints love to do. They love to run around
and mix together. That's just the nature of
the watercolor paints. So on this project, I do encourage that to happen
if it's going to happen. Don't worry about
them mixing together. For example, right here, my yellow went into my green, and that's okay.
That's okay with me. Alrighty friends,
as you can see, my colors are mixing and
spreading around right here, and I really like the
way that that looks. If you do not want your
colors to travel around, what you can do is you can take your handy dandy paper towel, hover over the area
that's spreading around, and lightly touch it
with your paper towel, touch your hand down on
your piece of paper. And what that will do is that paper towel will absorb
some of the paint, so it stops spreading. But I like the look, so
I'm going to leave it. Alright, I'm going to start
painting my flags now, and then after I paint my flags, I'm going to go ahead and
start painting these shapes. And Alrighty friends, I'm finished painting the Macas, the flags and the shapes
on the background. I did not paint these
faces right here on the flags because I'm going to pretend that
those are holes, and I'm going to paint
those orange along with the background because I want
it to look like the flags, have those cut out
holes in them, so you can see the
background through them. In the next step, we are going
to paint the background, so I will see you
in the next video.
4. Step 3: Paint the Background: In this step, we are going
to paint the background. So let's get started. Alrighty. I've
already decided that I'd like to paint my
background orange, but you can choose any
color that you like. I'm going to make some
orange paint on my palette. So I'm going to put
some water into one of my wells because
I'm going to need quite a bit of orange paint because I'm going to be painting
a big space. I'm going to be painting
all of these white spaces. Alright, so let me add
some orange paint. Remember if you like a
lighter shade of any color, you add more water. And if you like a darker, more vibrant shade,
of any color, then you use more paint. So I'm going to go ahead
and I'm going to go around those different shapes. But I know that if my paint
starts spreading around, that's okay because that is the neat thing about
watercolor paints. You don't quite know what
they're going to do sometimes. And that's really
fun and unexpected. So I'm going to
speed up the video and paint this background. Alrighty friends. I'm
finished painting my design. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
